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Critical realism (philosophy of perception)

Journal of Critical Realism

In this interview, Ruth Groff discusses how she came to be a realist, her role as a community organizer, her relationship to critical realism, and various issues arising from her published work over the years. Discussion ranges across the nature of positivism and its legacy, the concept of falsehood, realism about causal powers, mind-independent reality, the history of philosophy, and the underlying interest in ideology-critique that runs through her thinking.

Philosophy, metaphilosophy and ideology-critique: an interview with Ruth Porter Groff